Dear Teen, Dear Poet

By Peter J Orne and Bruce P Spang

Book Overview

What lessons does a boy need from a man-and why is it so hard for men to give them? In 1987, a forty-two-year-old answered a teenager's plea to write, the teen wrote back, and the two of them kept writing for four decades. Dear Teen, Dear Poet is the record of that correspondence: a boy assembling a self and a relationship letter by letter and a grown man brave enough to offer not his wisdom but his honesty-his fears, his failures, his unfinished becoming. It is by turns funny, aching, literary, and raw, a real-time portrait of how a person grows up and how men might talk to each other. At a moment when we are all worried about boys-their loneliness, their miseducation, the narrow scripts they're handed for what a man is allowed to be-this book doesn't diagnose the crisis. It quietly shows the way out and leaves you wishing someone had done the same for you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1970735570
• ISBN13: 9781970735574
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Warren Publishing, Inc
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary